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RE: NRC's Patient Release Rule
Even a medical physicist has found the some of the info new or insightful.
I will add my concerns about the landfill radiation detection systems. I
have read about garbage containers being sent away from landfills because
they set off the radiation alarm systems. I visited our local site and
determined that the alarm system was very sensitive. The operators were
somewhat familiar with Tc-99m and its short half-life; hold the container
for a couple of days and resurvey. I-131 waste from a patient's home will
not decay in a couple of days. My institution still follows the
conservative patient release: 33 mCi or 7 mR/h.
Charles Beasley, M.S.; DABMP
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> From: steve.rima@DOEGJPO.COM[SMTP:steve.rima@DOEGJPO.COM]
> Reply To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 12:41
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: RE: NRC's Patient Release Rule
>
> As a non-medical health physicist, I've found the exchange of ideas,
> accusations, etc. regarding this subject to be interesting and very
> enlighting. As a few others have stated, I am a little uneasy with
> hospitals releasing patients to the public with tens to hundreds of
> mCi of I-131 in them, but maybe part of that is due to my background
> in nuclear power and the DOE complex. My company would be fined, at
> the very least, if we allowed a member of the public to receive 500
> mrem from our activities, yet it is allowed in the medical world.
> Maybe someone can explain why such a double standard exists.
>
> I especially found the information from Peter Crane and Carol Marcus
> quite interesting, however, we also found out from Carol that the NRC
>
> is "dumb", "incompetent", "sleaze", "dangerously stupid", "useless",
> "dangerous", and that the NRC "Commissioners have no idea what's
> going
> on".
>
> While I have my own opinions as to certain regulatory personnel's
> competence, I would hope that we would not paint any agency with such
>
> a broad brush nor make such statements via RADSAFE.
>
> Steven D. Rima, CHP, CSP
> Manager, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene
> MACTEC-ERS, LLC
> steven.rima@doegjpo.com
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